“For far too long our culture has belittled, fetishized, and dehumanized API women, especially poorer, southeast Asian women…I am urging President Biden, Congress, and every state and local official to…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– I can’t stomach it anymore. Nearly every day, I see video of innocent Asian Americans being violently slammed to the ground. Or, I cringe at pictures…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– On Monday, April 12, the Oakland City Council passed an important resolution introduced by me and Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas. This resolution…
By Peter-Astrid Kane– The first time I came out to my parents as gay, I was two months shy of turning 20 and thinking, “You know, I really want to…
Winners of the Public Choice for San Francisco Pride 2021’s Community Grand Marshals were announced on April 15. They are the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center and Melonie Green and Melorra…
By Donna Sachet– If last Saturday’s explosion of excitement in the Castro is any indication, the Imperial Court of San Francisco is alive and very well! Candidates for Empress Ehra…
By Jan Wahl– The 93rd Academy Awards honor films released between January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021. During that time, many of us didn’t go out to the movies…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: D’yan Forest has always done things her way—or her ways because she’s lived a dozen different lives. Being a desperate Boston housewife, a New York nightclub…
By Julie Peri– Stripped screws are one of the challenges that you may encounter when building with wood. If a screw strips when it is halfway into a piece of…
By Louise “Lou” Fischer– When I heard that Alvin Baum had died, it took a while to sink in because the Al Baum whom I knew for almost 20 years…
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